Died Soviet composer Eduard Artemyev, author of music for “Stalker” and “Solaris”

Soviet and Russian composer Eduard Artemiev died at the age of 85. This was announced by his son Artemy Artemyev. The snob writes about it.

The composer was hospitalized in a Moscow hospital in the first half of December 2022 due to coronavirus.

Doctors rated the artist’s condition as moderate, but the situation was complicated by chronic heart pathologies. The composer noted that he “feels good.”

Later, the composer’s son reported that his father was taken to intensive care due to complications that arose during the treatment.

Eduard Artemyev was born on November 30, 1937 in Novosibirsk, where his family from Moscow passed. He lived in Moscow and Los Angeles, married once, his son Artemy also became a composer.

Artemyev wrote the music for more than 150 feature films.

The most famous among them are the films “Solaris”, “Mirror” and “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov – “Slave of Love”, “A Stranger Among Strangers, Among Friends”, “Siberian Barber”, as well as Andrey’s “Siberiade” ” Konchalovsky.

XXII, held in Moscow in 1980. And at the closing of the Games in Sochi, the main theme of the movie “At home among strangers, a stranger among friends” was played in one embodiment.

“I formulated for myself what music is in general. I then called music everything that has height, dynamics and time. If you approach it formally, leaving aside all aesthetic categories, then you can combine any noise in your mind and act only with these three dimensions , create a whole world of music. You may not even realize it. I often find myself thinking about it when it turns out that I smugly touched something wonderful, “Artemyev said in an interview. And she stated that she doesn’t feel her age just by doing what she loves.

Let me remind you that the grandson of the legendary Bob Marley died before. Joseph Merca Marley also became a musician and sang reggae songs.